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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to combat the liberal media’s flagrant lies and falsehoods about the administration’s tax reform framework. Before having to deal with Chuck Todd’s historical revisionism on the relationship between tax cuts and economic growth, he had to deal with ABC’s Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos who insisted over and over that the tax cuts were only meant for the wealthiest Americans.
With barely a dignified introduction to the viewers, Stephanopoulos pounced on Mnuchin and grill him on how his framework only helped the wealthiest few:
We just heard the President right there. Also, you and your colleagues have said the wealthy will not get a tax cut under the plan. It's really hard to see how that can possibly be true given that your plan proposes cutting the top rate, eliminating the Estate Tax, eliminating the Alternate Minimum Tax, cutting that rate on pass-through entities, and the non-partisan Tax Policy Center calculates that 80 percent of the benefits will flow to the top one percent.
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